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AN INVESTIGATION of the MENTAL HOSPITAL BUILDING TYPE Irvin J AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MENTAL HOSPITAL BUILDING TYPE Irvin J. Kohler August 1954 Submitted to the faculty of the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partial fulfillment of masterts thesis study, 1954. FOREWARD This study is concerned with the application of .the disciplines of architecture to the problems of the care and treatment of the mentally ill. I feel that there is sufficient justification to demand the re-thinking of build- ings housing the patient's treatment and living facilities to make them more in keeping with our standards of contem- porary achievements in both architecture and psychiatry. The limitations of such a study were: the study, itself; the personal limitations of the investigator; and the presentation. The gap between architecture and psy- chiatry is tremendous. Each is a field unto itself, but the two must be joined together if there is to be a satisfactory solution to the problems of the mental hospital building type. A great deal of time and research was necessary be- fore the writer could even begin to bridge this gap, due to professional differences in terminology, outlook, and ap- proach. The next limitation was my personal discomfort when I saw the patients illhoused, with very little in their en- vironment to help them retain their individuality and denied the right to facilities for a complete life because of build- ing deficiencies. The last limitation was that the presen- tation of such a study must necessarily be orderly and cata- logue in an organized way what a mental hospital is and needs. However, no such order is in existence in the actual build- ing, and unfortunately this presentation tends to leave the reader with the concept of order in the mental hospital.. Another problem of presentation is that of terminology. To be useful, such an investigation must satisfy the semantic demands of both the architect and the psychiatrist. With these limitations in mind - both personal and impersonal - this study is herewith presented in as ob- jective a way as possible, and with the intention of con- tributing an orientation for the architect who is confronted with the problems of designing for the mentally ill. TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION PAGE I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE . ......... 1 TT mENTrPAT HTOSPAT pTODAY L... .. UI ±±i.CIJ ±JJ..L±f.L LJA.L. ...0 15 Foreward .... .... 16 Introduction .. .. 17 Interpersonal Environment. 21 The Buildings. .... .. 24 III. THE MENTAL PATIENT .. .... 34 Foreward .. ... .... 35 Introduction ... ... .. .. .0 36 The Disease. .. .. 0 .. 37 Nature of Patient's Behavior 39 Housing Qualifications .. .. 46 Activities and Daily Schedule. 48 Conclusions. ... ... 54 IV. WHAT CAN THE ARCHITECT DO? . ,56 V. ACOUSTICS IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL 66 Foreward .. .. 0 . 0 0 . 67 The Influence of Sound on the Mental Patient. .. ... ... Acoustic Requirements for a Therapeutic Environment. .. .. .. .. 0 0 . 72 Control of Noise . ... .. .. 72 SECTION PAGE The Site . .. .. .. ; .. .. 73 Spaces for Living. .. .. .. 75 Spaces for Treatment .... ..... 76 Spaces for Circulation . .. .. ... 78 VI. COLOR IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL . ...... .81 Design Approach.... ....... .. 83 Experiment in Use of Color. .. .. 87 VII. BUILDING REQUIREMENTS. .. .. .. 93 The Site . .. .. .. .. .. 95 The Size ............. ... 96 Specific Characteristics in Selection of Site. .. .. .. 97 Orientation and Site Planning. ..... 98 Landscaping. .. .. .. .. .. 99 The Building ........... .... 101 Living Spaces. ..... ....... 101 Spaces for Treatment . ... .. .. .. 103 Common Facilities. .......... 108 Specifications . .. .. 110 Plumbing .. ..... ......0 112 Lighting and Electrical. ........ 112 Heating. .. .. .. .. .. .. 113 BIBLIOGRAPHY. .ill+..... ..... 1 SECTION I HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Although hospitals have existed since ancient times, there were no buildings specifically designed for the treatment of the mentally ill until the 18th century. It was through the enlightened attitudes of Phillippe Pinel in France and William Tuke in England that hospitals, as we think of them today, were made available for the treatment of the mentally sick.1 The history of the mental hospital program types is an in- teresting story of change in the social conscience. But, more important - the review provides the architect with the perspective necessary to approach the more complex problems to follow. The logical beginning of such a survey is medieval Europe. The violence, ignorance, intolerance, and idealism of the people in medieval Europe found its expression in their treatment of the mentally ill. The writings of the Fathers of the Church, literally interpreted, provided authority for attributing all disease to demons. The pos- sessed, as the mental patients were known then, were brought 3 to the church for treatment by exorcism.2 Persons who did not respond to this treatment were chained and abused for the supposed purpose of helping the patient to recover his possessed body.3 (Illustration I-A) It is difficult to determine whether the mentally sick were treated with similar brutality in earlier periods. If this was the first period in history to justify its brutality to the mental patient, then it is possible to say it established a tradition that was to last well into the 19th century and, in some ways, is with us to this day. With the growth of cities came the increased need for custodial facilities to rid society of the more undesirable lunatics who were not already in prisons or in custody. The city of London was in that position in the 14th century, when the priory of the Order of the Star of Bethlehem was first mentioned as a hospital for the in- sane. The way in which the patients were treated within the hospital, at that date, is not clear from the litera- ture available. But, the treatment the insane received within the prisons and the community is known beyond ques- tion. If the lunatic was unfortunate enough to be appre- hended and locked up in prison he was chained beside the criminal to rot and starve in his own excreta.1 In the community at large the insane were beaten, tortured, and burned. It was only an occasional act of charity that pro- longed his life for more suffering. ILLUSTRATION I-A 4 The same intolerance and brutality were found in Colonial America. Conditions were aggravated since they did not have a monastic system to relieve the State of the burdens of institutional care for the insane. And, of course, America did not have the advantages of vacant build- ings found in Europe and England after the Reformation. It was necessary, then, to introduce a new building type - what might be considered a "one person institution." The develop- ment of this type of space for the care of the mentally de- pendent is illustrated in the record of how Braintree, Mas- sachusetts, in 1689, provided: That Samuel Speere should build a little house 7 foote long & 5 foote wide & set it by his house to secure his Sister good w fe Wit.ty be- ing distracted & provide for her. After considering the practice of "warning out" any "Indian stragglers and crazy persons,"3 and accepting the realiza- tion that the "little house" was something more than a pen, this was indeed an act of charity. The customs of boarding out and providing individual solutions for the care of the insane were largely replaced by the "work-house" program. This solution was in theory the cure-all for the communities? custodial problems for housing "rogues, vagabonds," and other offenders along with the mentally ill. After a few years of operation, the de- generate living conditions of the work-houses were to be 5 improved by removing some of the mentally sick to other quarters. This was done for the benefit of the other in- mates of the work-house program, not for the benefit of the mentally ill. The mentally ill always remained on the bottom of the social structure and received little or no consideration in their housing conditions, a situation which prevailed well into the 19th century and required the tireless efforts and excellent work of Dorothea Dix to induce a change to what we now think of as the State Hospital for the Insane. But, it is important to remember the work of men like Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond for establishing a place for the insane in the newly com- .pleted Pennsylvania Hospital in 1756. It is true that the place the patient had in the hospital was little more than a prison and comparable to the treatment given the patient at Londonts infamous Bethlehem Hospital, now known as Bedlam, but the medical attention was the best the time could af- ford3 (Illustration II-B). Phillippe Pinel, in France, was the first man to successfully introduce a new era in the treatment of the mentally ill - the age of moral treatment. In 1793, Dr. Pinel removed the chains from the mentally sick in the Bi- cetre of Paris. 3 This was the dramatic symbol of the be- ginning of hospitals with a positive treatment program. The same interest in the welfare -of the mental patient was shared I I ILLTJSTRATION I-B 6 by William Tuke, an English layman, when he "stated his plans for the foundation of a humane hospital for the mentally ill."1 The result of Tukets work and planning was the York Retreat, in England, which was the prototype of many hospitals estab- lished in the United States. .However, what was most impor- tant in this period was the new attitude regarding: (1) re- search and (2) humanitarian ideals. Dr. Joseph Daquin, a contemporary of Pinel, expressed these aims as a program when he said: I underst'ood, however, that the course of treat- ment of insanity should be highly analogous to the methods used in the study of natural history, and that only in hospitals could one observe the various guises in which the malady appears, de- scribe its history, regulate the therapeutic methods which cannot be always the same in all varieties of mental derangements, rid onets self of all the prejudices one has about the various types of ij- sanity, and apply moral treatment in all cases.
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